INTRO: C

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Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore
Am
Party hacks and swift-boating talk-show whores
F                                                C
Look at all the lies it takes, the job of making kings
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You can own the truth, you just gotta conceive it
       Am
Put it on the television screens, they'll believe it
       Dm7               F
It's a beautiful thing
                   C
It's a beautiful thing


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We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us
          Am
While the profiteers count their cash and praise Jesus
    F                                        C
The press sings another chorus, “Let Freedom Ring”
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We send our boys away to come home in parts
  Am
Believe the lies with all our hearts
       Dm7               F
It's a beautiful thing
                   C
It's a beautiful thing


BRIDGE:
   F                                         C
Dissension is a song only fools and traitors sing
     F                                            G
Just look at all the benefits that global economy brings
  C                                 ~ ~
Today we sing the gilded age's song
    Am
The 20th century's dead and gone
       Dm7               F
It's a beautiful thing
                   C
It's a beautiful thing


INSTRUMENTAL: C    Am    F    C       Am    Dm7  F  C


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I live in a land of hope and betrayal
  Am
I get up each morning and try to tell the tale
    F                                         C
And so, until my dying day, whatever fate may bring
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A dark age looms, there's evil at hand
    Am
Somehow I still believe in the goodness of man
       Dm7               F
It's a beautiful thing
                   C
It's a beautiful thing
       Dm7               F
It's a beautiful thing
                   C
It's a beautiful thing